Word: crews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Huston and Peter Viertel from an episode in the novel Rough Sketch by Robert Sylvester. It concerns the hard-jawed heroics of a young Cuban-American revolutionist (John Garfield), who recruits a handful of assistant revolutionaries, including a slant-eyed girl named China Valdes (Jennifer Jones). Garfield puts his crew to work digging a tunnel from the cellar of Jennifer's home to a nearby cemetery. His lurid plan: to blow the dictator and his cabinet to smithereens as they stand about the family tomb of a bigwig senator whom Garfield has already earmarked for assassination...
...second time in eight days, the freshman crew out rowed MIT by about half a length. This week, however, the time for the mile-and-three-quarter course was 9:4, almost one minute better than the 10:19 registered by the same crews April...
...jayvee lightweights won their race by the biggest margin of any of the after over MIT on the Charles by trimming noon's seven crew races. Although MIT got the better start the Crimson soon overhauled the easily tiring Engineers to finish in 6:55.3, ten seconds and two and a half lengths ahead...
Several skiers saw the accident on Mr. Washington and identified the victim as Schiller. They gave an alarm, and a crew of volunteer rescue workers was organized, only to be forced back by melting snow. Police believe the man is dead, because he struck several rocks in his fall...
...would probably have drowned in the water." Joseph Dodge, manager of the Appalachian Mountain Club and rescue chief, claimed that he couldn't have lived more than 15 minutes. "It may be days before we find him," Dodge said. "He's probably far below the ice field." Another searching crew will set out today...